1.  Designers seem to admire the "laser-cut" fabrics as much as ever, but they're also dressing up ho-hum hems.

2.  David Gump's vacation-in-space ideas make activities like sky diving or mountain climbing seem downright ho-hum.

3.  Didn't think this ho-hum CBS series with Bill Cosby stood a chance when I previewed the first episode.

4.  Distressed by the ho-hum attitude toward a threat to human survival, Lifton agreed to help organize a conference on the subject.

5.  Despite his stellar play, Duval took it in a ho-hum fashion.

6.  Don Hewitt, whose "60 Minutes" once aired a Kevorkian euthanasia tape, told The Philadelphia Inquirer that broadcasting an execution by lethal injection would be ho-hum.

7.  Doyle described his reaction to the decision as "ho-hum."

8.  E-commerce is already ho-hum this Christmas, and shopping malls are still perceived by many as parking traps.

9.  Even that seemed ho-hum for the Yankees.

10.  FBC-TCU-EXTRA _ TCU tries to find spark missing through three ho-hum games.